Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 195, Decatur, Adams County, 18 August 1952 — Page 1

Vol. L. No. 195.

Here’s A ‘Horse’ Os A Different Shape In Korea Sw **'^^^k* • l oBsTfIITMK I®* S?~WTWi . a.□ - y .JilBL SI rr - -VS* ** - .><' *-,£i. . v — ' ''*■• ■ :-!3< :<' iz '- .•.-' / ' T’ ' »- ■ .3 I * - * ■ v -V *■' WINDING UP THE SIDE of a |iill in Korea are tanks of “Baker” squadron of the Lord Strathcona Horse (a celebrated cavalry outfit at one time). The Canadian vehicles were headed to the rear after taking part in the heavy fighting near the front line. The tanks were due for a maintenance check.

Berne Opens Centennial To Big Audience

With the huge Mennonlte chprch auditorium bulging to overflow Sunday night, Berne’s observance of its one -hundred years of existence opened with a sacred concert. t, ] ' j r Hundreds were unable to get inside the large church auditorium end 4o»d speakers were placed io other churches where miny o( the overflow audience attended the concert, y Tents have been erected through out the business section of . the Adams county jCity and today is being observed as Governor’s day in the week’s program. GovernorHenry Schricker is scheduled to speak at the municipal park imipediately following a parade which he will lead starting at 7:30 o’clock. The is scheduled to arrive this afternoon late for the event and will be entertained at dinner by’the Berne Rotary club. The pageant “Time To Remember” will open Tuesday night and will be presented on Thursday and Saturday nights at municipal park. On Friday night, heards grown by Bernites for the last several months. Special events are scheduled for* evehy day of the observance. A. carnival atmosphere has taken over and rides and concessions line the streets. This phase of the celebration is scheduled to get started this afternoon and swing into full action following the Gbvernor’s address at municipal park, park. \ 1951 Family Doctor Is Hurt In Mishap SOUTH BEND, Ind. UP —Dr. A. C. Yoder, 85, Goshen, America’s “family doctor of 1951,” was in good condition at Memorial Hospital today after undergoing surgery for an injury suffered in an auto accident. Yoder, chosen family doctor by the American Medical Association’s house of delegates last year, suffered a broken kneecap when the auto he was driving collided with another car in Goshen Saturday. . ‘i * \ . Attempted Murder Is Claimed By Kaiser y LAKE TAHOE, Calif. UP —Millionaire industrialist Henry J. Kaiser saidlsome of his enemies—possibly Communists — tried td murder him by tampering with two of this high powered speedy boats. \ ~ . Thirty \ minutes before Kaiser was to have piloted one of the 169-mile-an boats in the Lake Tahoe Gold w»P race 1 Sunday the tampering was discovered. Kaiser’s executive assistant, Robert C. Elliott, said the propeller shaft of the 32-foot alumi-num-hulled Hot Metal had been sawed in two and bolts, nuts and rags had been stuffed into the craft’s carburetpr and blower.

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Accident Toll Is Eight In Indiana Three Die In Plane Mishap In Porter Co. ) / By UNITED PRESS ’ Three men were killed in a Porter County plane crash as Indiana counted another bloody week-end of violent deaths in the air, on highways and in water. At least eight persons Were killed in traffic, two of them pedestrians, and drownings claimed three lives, as the toll soared, to 14. A light plane crashed into a field Shortly afterya take-off from Urschel Airport at Valparaiso,\killing all\ three’ occupants. They were identified as Joseph W. Cook, 29, the pilot; Bennie F. Ripley, 42, and Wendell D. Stoner, 22, sll of Valparaiso. j | t ’• One of the drownings actually was a traffic fatality. Ten-year-old Marion Grave of Greencastle was thrown from an auto Saturday and drowned in waist-deep water :of a small creek near his home. His sister, Audrey, 21, her hand pinned under the overturned car, watched helplessly. - J The other drowning victims were Rollow J. Roby, 55, Larwill, and Walter MacDonald, 30, Chicago. Roby fell from a rawboat Sunday into Lake Larwill. MacDonald was washed from a 22-foot motorboat in Lake Michigan near Gary by d big wave: '? Four-year-old John Turner Jr., Anderson, daghed into the path of a car in front of his home and, was killed Saturday night. Thomas Kesterton, j 78, was struck by an duto snd killed as he walked along Ind. 37 near his home at English Saturday night. Richard Boyle, 19, Vallonia, was killed Sunday state police sgid, he fell asleep :at the wheel and his ear ran off Ind? 135, north of Salem, skidded and I struck a utility pole. - ] ! Winston Whitworth, 70, Shelby, N. C.. was killed Saturday when his truck collided with ja car driven by Ronald Weaver, (Alexandria, at the intersection of Infl. 22, U. S. 35 and Ind. 9 near Ma'rion. John R. O’Brian, 23, xyashington, Ind., died enrpute\ to a hospital of injuries suffered Saturday in a two-car collision on Ind. 67 near Martinsville. . | Injuries suffered Saturday when his car struck one driven by Henry Blough, Goshen, proved fatal to James Aucoin, 25, Lafayette. The accident occurred on U. S. 33 near Goshen. George Bennett, 65, Fort Wayne, was burned to death late Saturday when his car burst into flames after colliding with another auto on U. S. 27, about seven miles south of Fort Wayne. Mrs. Nellie Hehe, 18, Dillsboro, was killed Sunday nigtit when she swerved off Ind. 3 south of here to avoid an oncoming car but lost control of her auto and struck the car anyway.

Stevenson Is Endorsed By Progressives ■ A.D.A. Approves Both Stevenson-Sparkman G.O.P. Lashes Back WASHINGTON, iIP — Gov. Adlai Stevenson won tse endorsement of Americans Tor democratic Action today and the Republicans promptly tried to Turn it into a political liabilit/ for him. The non-Communtet liberal organization, to no one's surprise, issued a formal statement pledging its full campaign support to the Democratic presidential nominee and his \ running-mate, Sen. John J. Sparkman of Alabama. It said GOP presidential nominee Dwight D. Eisenhower has shown himself to bb “naive” about domestic problems, and that he has “repudiated” the Internationalist foreign policy! he helped to create. ! I . The Republican Rational Committee immediately fired back a statement, over tho name of Sen. Bourke B. Hickenlooper of lowa, saying that ADA support was new proof that Stevensoin is a “captive”’ candidate. . Pastor Lashes \ SPRINGFIELD, 111. UP — Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson was slouched in a rear pew when, a Presbyterian minister charged Sen. Everett M. Dirksen, R-111., told a “blatant lies” about Stevenson. The Democratic presidential nominee took time out from week end strategy conferences to attend the church services Sunday and heard the Rev. Richard Paul Graebel blast Dirksen, who has often criticized Stevensoh. Graebel told his congregation the Illinois senator told a "blatant lie” when he made a recent statement saying Steviepson w'as the worst Illinois governor since the turn of the century. "The minister gaid Dirksen pra? "one of the most irresponsible men” in the senate and the Republican party. Stevenson today deferred a planned holiday at Mibocqua, Wis., so he could hold some staff conferences on campaign problems. He wanted to discuss questions which arose during weekend meetings with his nine-member campaign strategy board. The governor tqok time out to deplore the size of the stay-at-home vote and, at the same time, urged that servicemen be encouraged to vote by absentee ballot Tfle governor had intended to leave this morning, stop at Chicago for a dental appointment and fly to Minocqua late today. Two Are Awarded State Fair Trip Jim Price of the Washington Variety Farmers and William Sipe of the Blue Creek Sod busters were awarded a trip to the state fair 4-H club boys camp. The award was made by the 4-H club council on the general achievement basis. Jim is the sop of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Price of Decatur route 6, and Bill Is the son of Mr. and MrS. Lester Sipe of Berne, route 2.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, August 18, 1952.

Chinese Top Officials /; -*- Arrive In Moscow For Important Conference

'Decatur Status Is Considered As Tops', Ford Chamber Secretary Returns After A Week Os Classes ■I '■ " Chamber of Commerce secretary Walter Ford, said today that the classes held last week at Northwestern University at Chicago—an annual event to keep Chamber secretaries up-to-date—were a complete success and the conference showed 'Decatur to be in one of the finest positions financially as compared to cities of comparative size. Ford said after classes were over for the day. the 430 Chamber executives convened for informal sessions. It was at these sessions, he said, that each chamber got a line on all the rest and a man could in a measure tell if he was doing a good job. During one of these meetings;’said Ford, he mentioned the fact that Decatur has recently had a $100,00(1 sewer project approved and financed. The other chamber men; were surprised and, said Ford, some were even astonished that a city of this size was solvent enough to be able to accomplish such a progressive step. Ford said that sijinie time in the near future representatives from two cities are going to make a Visit to study Decatur’s policies with a view to improving their own town. >\ In all, said Ford, the week was quite a strenous one with classes beginning promptly at 8 o’clock in the morning and going with but small breaks until 5 o’clock in the afternoon. Taken up were merchandising, committee work, membership, commerce and the like. Each day ,9 guest speaker would address thb group on philosophical as Well as business subjects. A Ford said he was especially impressed with an idea j another chamber executive had put to work in his city a farm club. The farm, club, Ford, teaches the farmer, in away, to make himself more independent from federal control; to make private business of the farm that is now practically government planned. Ford said he would study it further and then perhaps initiate something of the sort in Decatur. Present at the meeting was Arch Booth, executive secretary of the U. S. Chamber of- Commerce, who, said Ford, stressed a lessetF ing of government contraband the placing of the reins of business, big and small, back in the hands of the businessman. Berne Woman Dies At Local Hospital Edna Moser, 50 Dies Early This Morning Mrs. Edna Moser, 50, wife of Palmer Moser, well-known Berne business man died at Adams county memorial hospital early this morning. Death followed a stroke of paralysis. Mrs. Moser had been ill for Some time. Mrs. Moser was born in Monroe daughter of David F. and Emma Sprunger Lehman. She was married December 28, 1924 to Palmer Moser, who survives. She was a member of Berne First Mennonite church. \ Surviving in addition to the husband are two daughters: Mrs. John Eicher, Berne and Mrs. Richard Bauman, Carlock, 111. A Son, Millard Moser, at home also survives as does one granddaughter. Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon at the First Mennonite church at 2:30 o’clock with Rev. John Sprunger officiating. Burial will be in the M. R. E, cemetery. Friends may call at the Mose.home after 7:30 o’clock tonight.

Work Progressing On School's Walls 1 Bricklayers To Begin pi Rebuilding This Week jr Laborers are continuing the task of removing masonry on the if rant parapet wlill of Decatur Junior-Senior high school. They • lave already completed the west xarapet wall and it is now reported ready for the installation of thtough-the-wall flashing, the replacement of the bricks and the 4inal coping. As was expected, the front parapet wall is in the worst condition It was explained that this was because it alone is elevated higher than the other walls and provides more surface for moisture to seep tn. Superintendent W. Guy Brown, said bricklayers will arrive tomorrow to begin rebuilding the torn down walls. > Meanwhile, workers are hacking away at the old bricks to get the old mortar off them so that they can be used again. The next work to be tackled 'Will be the gymnasium parapet walls, the lowest of all and the oije expected, to give the least trouble. ; ' Tn is week, said Supt. Brown, work will commence on the construction of the book room and darkroom. He said work was proceeding on schedule with no unexpected complications arising thus 'rar. ' - ■ ■ ' I Mdm. Chiang Kai-Shek Here For Examination SAN FRANCISCO,\ UP — Madame t’hiang Kai-Shek, wife of China’s Nationalist leader, waited in [ the darkness of her two-room suite at Franklin Hospital here today for the decision of three specialists. ’ I ! - The first lady of Nationalist Chiria arrived in San Francisco Saturday night for treatnvent of a skin •disorder which has troubled her for the pastylO years. k - ! * < ' i INDIANA WEATHER Fair north, partly cloudy tonigh.t few- scattered shovy-ers extreme southwest. ; " Tuesday mostly fair. Somewhat cooler north portion tonight. Low tonight 56 to 62 t north, 64 to 69 soiith; high Tuesday 80 to 85 north, 85 to 90 south. 1 < _ ' ’ t 4-H Campers Leave On Annual Outing 60 Adams County Youths Make Trip Adams county 4-H club campers left for Lake McClure, Kosciusko county Sunday afternoon. They will stay in camp bntll Wednesday afternoon. 61 4-H members were in, the party. The camp staff roster included: Paul Brumbaugh, extension recreation leader of Purdue; Rudy Meyers, conservationist; Art Parish, district forester; Bob Sprunger, senior at Purdue University, Dan Cheek, dentist, Wayne Brunner and Richard Gaskill, life guards; L. E. Archbold, county agent; Nellie Price, Mrs. Erwin LOchner, Mrs. Holman Egly; Mrs. William Griffiths, Anna K. Williams, home demonstration agent, and Gloria Krieneman, 4-H club agent. ’The staff will teach the various classes and supervise all activities. The annual outing is looked forward to by Adams county 4-Hers and each year 50 ,or 60 Adams county farm youths take advantage of the trip. Regular classes and tegular recreational periods are conducted daily on the shores of the lake. Permanent 4-H buildings house the campers.

Tenfative Tax Rafe 1$ $4.17 For This City Compilation Made On Rate Proposals By Various Units Based on tentative rates CRrid by local taxing units, Decatur taxpayers face a boost, of 43 cents oh each slos of taxables gext year, of the proposed levies show. -- The current levy is $3.74 and the proposed I levies for 1953, total $4.17. f * ■ The largest increase is in the Decatur civil city\ rate which may climb from an even $1 per sl(rt) to $1.52. The school board’s levy for next year will go up from $1.69 to $1.76 on the SIOO. -C Partially offsetting these increases is the 16 cent cut in the county’s proposed rate? This levy will drop from 63 cents to 47 cents, with .the reductions made in the county’s general fund, the welfare department and the hospital. There are rio increases In the township and library levies, the rates remaining static at 13 cents for Washington township and 14 cents for the Decatur Library board. The township levy includes 11 cents for the poor relief fund. Final action on the proposed levies will be taken next month and it is likely that reductions will be made in a few of the levies that comprise Decatur’s combined tax ra.te. Figured on $10,000,09 of taxables in the city, the 43 cent boost will increase the tax bill in this city approximately $43*000 for year. —-L_ Drug May Be Aid To Many Mental Cases Accidental Finding Is Being Applied ANOKA, Minn. UP — A physician who reported he accidentally learned that the drug “pyricidtn” brought “striking and unexpected” improvement in several severe mental cases said today he hoped it would be the “key” to a cure for mental illness. Dr. A. E. Krieser reported he was administering the drug to mental patients afflicted with tuberculosis to learn if it w'as effective against that disease when he noticed the patients’ mental conditions were undergoing a favorable change. Krieser, head 6f the tuberculosis control unit of Minnesota’s division of public institutions, reported his findings to the manufacturer of\the drug in New ; York. “The study was barely under way,” he said, “before we noted many of the patients’ mental symptoms were changing.” Krieser and his staff were “pleasantly surprised to find a number of patients displayed deffinite improvement in their mental behavior after having received daily dosages of the drug for two to three weeks,” he said. _ I Krieser was careful to emphasize that the drug is not a “cure” for mental disturbances. He said such illnesses are deeply-rooted. * ; L' \ p ’ ? Junior Chamber Will Hold Meeting Tonight Members of the Junior Chamber lot Commerce are requested to attend a meeting at the Chamber of Commerce building at 8 o’clock tonight. A financial report on the group’s fair activity and other business will be brought before the body.

Political Bigwigs Eye Indiana Vote Indiana Will Be 1952 Battleground i INDIANAPOLIS UP—lndiana shaped up today as a possible presidential campaign battleground with the announcement that Dwight D.. Eisenhower will speak here Sept. 9. \ Hoosiers will get a lot of attention because they’re not in the habit of giving any party an overwhelming majority in contemporary presidential elections. Eisenhower is the lirst Republican but the second of the four major party national ticket candidates to enter the personal chase for Indiana’s 13 electoral Votes. Sen. John J. Sparkman, Democratic vice presidential nominee, kicks off the national campaign Saturday night. The Alabaman will address an expected crowd of 1,000 at the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association’s annual gettogether at French Lick. Eisenhower’s running mate, Sen. Richard Nixon of. California, may carry his campaign into the Hoosier state, although no plans have been announced. Political observers figure Gov. Adlai Stevenson, Democratic presidential nominee, will show In Indianapolis if only as a favor to Gov. Henry F. Schricker, who placed his name in nominatoin at the national convention last month. Certainly part of the push fdr Hoosier votes stems from the fact that in 1948 of more than 1,600,000 votes cast, \Gov. Thomas E. Dewey carried the state by scarcely 14,000. I • Indiana has been a pivotal state since the 1936 second-term landslide for Franklin D. Roosevelt with the exception of 1944 wheri Dewey smothered Roosevelt by votes. That was GOP revenge for the 140,000-vote lacing Roosevelt handed Alfred M. Landon in the second term campaign. But native Wendell L. Willkie carried Hoosierland by only 25,000 votes In 1940. That was the first close vote since 1916 when Woodrow Wilson won a second term but lost Indiana to Charles Evans Hughes by scarcely 7,000 votes.

Typhoon Lashes At Shores Os Korea i Allied Warplanes Are Grounded By Wind SEOUL, Korea, UP — Typhoon Karen slashed into the Korean battle zone today, grounding Allied warplanes, sending Navy vessels off the West Coast to cover and bringing the war to a temporary halt. ' '-i The eye of the rampaging tropical storm hit the Southwest Korean Coast 100 miles south of Seoul early this afternoon and ripped inland oyer a north-northeast course at 15 miles an hour. Within a few hours, high winhs and heavy ratys on the edge of the 5G’-mile-wide storm battered Seoul and the Western battlefront. The winds were (expected to build up to 80 or 90 miles-per-hour at Seoul tonight. The sth A|r\ Force grounded its warplanes and tied them down for the duration of the storm. The British aircraft carrier Ocean left its station off the West Coast of Communist Korea and dashed out of the storm’s path. Smaller Allied warships took shelter in coves and in the lee of northern islands. ' The stonb swamped sampans and fishing boats and dumped a floor of water on American and South Korean supply depots. There was ho immediate report of casualties* among Allied fighting men nor’of damage to U. N. installations, i \

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Believe Meet To Cover All Red Problems Russian Officials Are At Airport To Meet Friendly Leaders MOSCOW, UP — A large delegation of Chinese Communist military and goyprnment officals, headed by Premier Chou Eh, Lai, has arrived in Moscow for talks on the expanding of Soviet-Chinese Velatlons-probably in the military and heavy industry sphere?. The number and ranks of the Chinese delegation and the Soviet officials who welcomed them indicated the importance of the talks. It was the largest and most important Chinese Communist group to visit Moscow since Red China’s Chief Mao Tse-Tung was here two years ago. Soviet Premiers Vyascheslav M. Molotov and Anastas I. Mikoyan, Marshal Nikolai A. Bulganin, Foreign Minister Aifdret Y. Vishinski and Foreign Trade Minister P. N. Kumykin led the Russian group that met the Chinese at Central Airport Sunday. The Chinese delegation represented a large segment of the Communist Cabinet including the political, economic and military leaders. The talks obviously will cover the whole range of Soviet-Chinese relations including the Far Eastern situation. - L Chou Eh-Lai, who also is Red China’s foreign minister, said at the airport: “The government delegation of the Chinese People’s Republic now has arrived in Moscow with the aim of strengthening still further the friendly collaboration betweeri the two countries and discussing various questions connected with this.” , He said the treaty concluded between the two natipns in 1950 was a demonstration of firm friendship and had played a great role in ensuring peace in the Far East and throughout the world. He hailed Soviet Premier Josef Stalin as the “leader of the working people of the whole world.”

MUNSAN, Korea, UP — Allied observers said today the Chinese Communist mission to Moscow » may ask greater Soviet support in Korea and the unleashing of the Red Chinese Air Force in Manchuria against United Nations' 1 v forces. The Uy S. has estimated the Communists' have 1,8000 planes in their “sanctuary,” T. of (which are Russian-built MIG-15 jets. The jets have appeared over North Korea recently in small lumbers despite the attempts ofd tJ. S. F-88 Sabrejet pilots to luH them into battle. Peiping Radio reported the arrival of the Red Chinese delegation to Moscow on the eve of resumption of truce talks at Pan-munjorn-now snarled over the exchange of prisoners of war. The negotiations resume Tuesday, after a recess called by the U. N., the third in as many weeks. The U. N. obtained the recess when it became apparent the Reds would not give up their demands for forcible repatriation of Allied-held prisoners. Radio Peiping said Premier Chou En-Lai took a staff of 14 top military and civilian officials with him to Moscow for highlevel talks with the Russian. The purpose of the visit was described in only the broadest terms but the possibility of the Chinese trying to retaliate against the U. N. for the stepped-up air ' war was indicated by the makeup of the Chinese mission. It included the commander of the Chinese air force, .deputy command; ers of the Chinese Navy and Army artillery and ministers for fuel, machine-building and heavy in* \ (Tara T® JPa<« Twe> .